Our Fundraising Post is #1 on Music Trending!! Also I am Failing to Avoid Social Media SO BAD lol

Two quick updates:

eBook Fundraising Success

For one thing, holy shit!! We're the top trending post for music! GO TEAM!!

That Avenged Sevenfold review threatened our rank (lol), but we persevered. We held strong. We had massive support from the incredible team over at the @sndbox incubator.

We got another big vote from the generosity of mega-Steemian @ausbitbank. And along with that, we had more than 100 smaller grassroots votes - people just like you or me, voting up for a buck, or even a cent, and helping us along. Without any of these resources, we may have failed to reach number one.

This is a huge vote of confidence by Steemit towards our project - it shows that the Steem community continues to appreciate our music scene and wants to help us grow. And we're gonna take that and run with it.

It's Not Too Late to Vote or Resteem

If you haven't upvoted or resteemed, it's not too late. The post has only been up for 12 hours and I plan to keep promoting and raising awareness for it all the way until it pays out.

If you want to help, all you have to do is upvote and/or resteem THIS POST. And if you can let your friends know about it on Twitter/Discord/Steemit Chat/etc - that's another huge way to help.

Our goal is to raise $2,700 USD - with this post and our savings so far, we'll be above $1,000. It's a great great start - but what if we could do more? Can we raise even more money on this post? I think so, so let's work hard and see if we can make it happen.

BTW - in case you weren't aware, all of these funds go to the project (with a small % going to Sndbox directly for other projects as well) - none go to me personally. Each vote on this post is a vote for Steemit itself.

Also: Failing Hard at Avoiding Social Media

Here's the saga so far in case you are just joining us now:

Part 1: No Social Media at Home Experiment: Breaking the Addiction
Part 2: Update on No Social Media at Home: The Withdrawals are Kicking In!! Aaaah!!!

This morning I woke up early and spent a good 30 minutes on my phone browsing Twitter. blew it. The problem is, until the sun comes up, its so cold. I dont wanna get up - and my phone is right there :-P.

I might have to start keeping my phone out of reach of my bed. That way when I wake up, no matter how lazy I feel, the phone is only accessible by actually getting out of the bed and standing up. It's similar to the ol' "Put the alarm clock out of reach so you can't stay in bed" strategy.

One trick you learn about addiction is you can't just eliminate habits - you gotta replace them. What replaces the phone? The obvious answer is a book.

So I guess I'll be grappling with this hard sci-fi, ultra-conceptual work of fiction courtesy of @wdougwatson, who recommended this insane book to me:

...life comes at ya fast.

lol, we'll see what happens. Maybe I need to find some lighter, less plot-oriented reading for my morning awakening. I used to always have books around the my bed, IDK what happened. Stupid blockchains got me all digital.

What's your addiction right now? We may not all be fighting the social media demon, but we're all probably working on some kind of habit adjustment. Tell me your struggles in the comment so we can get some solidarity going in here. :-)